Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt on Thursday predicted a totally invasive Internet.<\/p>\n
At the end of a panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where his comments were webcast, he was asked for his prediction on the future of the web. \u201cI will answer very simply that the Internet will disappear,\u201d Schmidt said ironically.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere will be so many IP addresses\u2026so many devices, sensors, things that you are wearing, things that you are interacting with that you won\u2019t even sense it,\u201d he explained. \u201cIt will be part of your presence all the time. Imagine you walk into a room, and the room is dynamic. And with your permission and all of that, you are interacting with the things going on in the room.\u201d<\/p>\n
Concluded Schmidt: \u201cA highly personalized, highly interactive and very, very interesting world emerges.\u201d<\/p>\n
The panel, entitled The Future of the Digital Economy, also featured Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and others.<\/p>\n
Earlier in the debate, Schmidt discussed the issue of market dominance. The European Union has been looking at Google\u2019s search market dominance in a long-running antitrust case, and the European parliament late last year even called for a breakup.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou now see so many strong tech platforms coming, and you are seeing a reordering and a future reordering of dominance or leaders or whatever term you want to use because of the rise of the apps on the smartphone,\u201d Schmidt said Thursday. \u201cAll bets are off at this point as to what the smartphone app infrastructure is going to look like\u201d as a \u201cwhole new set\u201d of players emerges to power smartphones, which are nothing but super-computers, the Google chairman argued. \u201cI view that as a completely open market at this point.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked about his recent trip to North Korea, Schmidt said the country has many Internet connections through data phones, but there is no roaming and web usage is \u201cheavily supervised.\u201d Schmidt said \u201cit\u2019s very much surveillance of use,\u201d which he said was not good for the country and others.<\/p>\n
Sandberg and Schmidt lauded the Internet as an important way to give more people in the world a voice. Currently, only 40 percent of people have Internet access, the Facebook COO said, adding that any growth in reach helps extend people\u2019s voice and increase economic opportunity. \u201cI\u2019m a huge optimist,\u201d she said about her outlook for the industry. \u201cImagine what we can do\u201d once the world gets to 50 percent, 60 percent and more in terms of Internet penetration.<\/p>\n
Gunther Oettinger, a conservative German politician serving as the European Union\u2019s commissioner for digital economy and society, said on the panel that \u201cwe need a convincing global understanding, we need a UN agency for data protection and security.\u201d Asked what form that \u201cunderstanding\u201d should have, he said he was looking for \u201cclear, pragmatic, market-based regulation.\u201d Explained Oettinger: \u201cIt\u2019s a public-private partnership.\u201d<\/p>\n
Source: Hollywoord Reporter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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